BIRD at Interop (is this list still alive?)

[Hege Trosvik]

Hi,

the iLabs open source software area is planning to demonstrate
BIRD as one of our open source routing stacks at Interop, where
our demo includes an infrastructure entirely based on open source,
and routing is one part of it.

First, I'm not sure if the BIRD project is even alive, since the
last piece of news I see on the web page is from 2/21/2005. But,
hopefully somebody is still working on this project and reading 
this alias.

My BGP peering between BIRD and it's peer (currently testing with a
Cisco catalyst3550) keeps going down. Not only does the peering go
down, but it seems that bird stops receiving anything on it's 
interface. However if I leave an ssh session with the box running
bird open, the interface (and peering) comes up again as soon as I
touch ssh session. Leaving a ping running in the window with my ssh 
session also will keep the interface from going down. 

This could of course mean I have bad hardware, but I seem to recall 
running into a similar problem with bird before and wanted to check 
if this is a known problem.

Regards,

	Hege